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Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:23:55 PM
Hodes: Reading Every Bill “Not Realistic”
No time to read the bills
Democratic
Rep. Paul Hodes (NH-02) believes reading every bill in Congress “would
slow down the business of Congress to a crawl and it would be hard to
get done what needs to be done.”
Members of Congress who don’t read the bills they are voting on
“is not necessarily the major problem with the way Congress functions,”
he said.
Hodes, who is the sole Democratic candidate in the race to replace
the retiring New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, made the remarks during a
recent editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph.
“Hodes said it’s not realistic to expect members of Congress to read
every bill word-for-word, as Congress took more than 2,000 votes in the
session that ended in December,” the paper reports.
http://www.nowhampshire.com/2009/08/04/hodes-reading-every-bill-%E2%80%9Cnot-realistic%E2%80%9D/